Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-28
HOME AFFAIRS.
A BAD BREAK IN THE CHICAGO
WHEAT MARKET.
Grants BirthGay-Bru-
tai Wife Murder in Iowa-A
Clergyman Shot.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RzcoRD-uNlos.l
GRANT's RIRTHDsy
Tie Memory of the Hero Honored in the


The Memory of the Hero Honored in the
East.
New YORK, April 28th.-[Special 1.-The
guests OF the Fifth-avenue Hotel clustered
around the doorway of the gentIemen's
parlor tonight to see the fighting Genera,
Sherman and the eloquent Roscoe Conk-
ling, and to hear the many other eminent
soldiers and statesmen speak in honor OF
the dead hero, Grant. 1t was the sixty
fifth anniversary OF Grants birthday. and
New York, not 20 be outdone by California,
Pennsylvania and Ohio, had, through n
committee of loyal men, asked its best cit
zens TO form Grant Birthday Assoeia-
tion,' to keep his memory green in the
hearts OF future generations. At half.past
General c. II. T. Collins called the roll.
Among those responding, besides Sherman
and Conkling, were Logan G.. Murray
Hamilton Fish, Jr., Major Bundv. Gen
eral r. f Winslow, General Fitzgerald. l..
NJ. Bates, n. I. Sprague and twenty Others.
MARK TwAIS's TRIBUTE.
HARTFORD Conn.,, April 27th.-At the
animal reunion of the Army and NAVY
Club, of Connecticut, this evening, the
chief address on the memory of General
Grant was made by the Rev. NJ. Riddle
formerly q Chaplain in the service. He
was followed by Mark Twain. who said
" | will detain you with only lust few
words-just few thousand woris-and
then give place to a better man. if he has
been created. Lately that great and honored
author, Matthew Arnold has been finding
iauit with General Grants English. That
would be fair enough maybe if the ex-
amples of imperfect English averaged
more instances to the page in General
Grants book than they do in Mr.. Arnold's
criticism upon the book, but thew don't
Laughter and applause 1t would be fair
enough, maybe, if such instances were
commoner in General Grants book than
they are in the works of the average stand
ard authors, but they aren't. In truth
General Grants derelictions in the matter
OF grammar and construction are not more
frequent than are such dereliction in the
works OF majority of the pro-
fessional authors of our time, and OF
previous times-authors as exclusively and
painstakingly trained to the literary trade
as was General Grant to the trade of wer
[Applause.l There is that about the sun
which makes us forget his spots, and when
we think of General Giant our pulses
quicken and his grammar vanishes We
only remember that this is the simple
soldier, who, all untaught of the silken
phrase-makers, linked words together with
an art surprising the art of the schools
and put into them a something which will
still bring to American ears, as long as
America shall last, the roll of his vanished
drums, and the tread of his marching
hosts" [Tumultuous applause
AT PITTsBURG.
PTTsBURG Pa.), April 27th.-The ban.
quet given tonight by the American Re
publican Club at the Monongahela House
in commemoration of General Grant:
sixty fifth birthday, was the grandest affail
of the kind ever held in this section. Pro
minent Republican leaders from all part.
of the country were present.